Synodic month length 29.38 days

Length of current 1245 lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 13 minutes. It is 1 minute longer than next lunation 1246 length.

Lunation length shorter than mean

Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 31 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 38 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.

Lunar orbit position on 17 September 2100 Friday 12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠320.8°

This lunation true anomaly is ∠320.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠340.4°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Moon before apogee

10 days after point of perigee on 6 September 2100 at 19:23 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 5 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 22 September 2100 at 16:20 in ♉ Taurus.

Distance to Moon 395 089 km

Moon in ascending node

Moon is in ascending node in ♓ Pisces at 01:56 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from South to North. Moon will follow the northern part of its orbit for the next 14 days to meet descending node on 1 October 2100 at 12:43 in ♍ Virgo.

New draconic month

Moon after southern standstill

5 days after previous South standstill on 11 September 2100 at 14:42 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-28.345°. Next 8 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠28.300° in the next northern standstill on 26 September 2100 at 01:39 in ♊ Gemini.